Word: signboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its size, F-111 is hardly a new departure for Rosenquist, 31, who started out as a billboard painter and feels that his early years gave him a unique outlook. He once did a 58-ft. by 20-ft. portrait of Actress Joanne Woodward for a Broadway signboard, and his view of women and the world has been Brobdingnagian ever since. Says Rosenquist of his work: "I'm interested in contemporary vision-the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing-bang! Bing-bang! I don't do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences...
Detroit's biggest outdoor signboard is devoted, fittingly, to keeping a minute-by-minute tally of the year's auto production. Sometime this week, the sign's revolving numerals will register their 2,290,000th car in 1965, thus breaking an alltime quarterly record for the auto industry; before the month is out, that figure will rise to some 2,500,000 for 1965's first three months. As the industry drives confidently toward what it believes will be its first 9,000,000-car year,* one company is gaining faster than all the others. Though...
Less than 24 hours after he was sprung from jail on $100,000 bail, pending appeal of a 15-year tax-dodging rap, California Gambling Ganglord Mickey Cohen, 50, was accused of clobbering a Teamsters' picket with his own signboard. The donnybrook, which the short-fused mobster attributed to an anti-Semitic slur, was blamed by his foe on Cohen's unprovoked truculence (sample printable quote: "I own this local, and you are out"). This time Mickey only had to drop a niggling $1,050 bond to return to the suburban Van Nuys bungalow he shares with Showgirl...